Added 4 November, 2013
Senior travel and tourism executives are at the World Travel Market this week, one of the largest annual travel conferences. A consensus is building there that the world needs a cheaper version of business class and that these cabins will start to take shape in the next year. In fact, the service already exists on budget Middle Eastern airlines...
Added 1 November, 2013
Increasingly, governments are encouraging the move towards electric vehicles (EVs), using both the carrots of tough laws and the sticks of higher taxes. Still, it can be hard to figure out the real cost of plugging in your car, as opposed to filling it with gasoline. That's what we like about the Electric Vehicle Autonomous Renewable Charger, the...
Added 28 October, 2013
The Segway, a self-balancing two wheeled vehicle, promised a new kind of transportation, one that would transform the way we move around. While it is now used by shopping mall security people and for specialized tourist groups worldwide, the Segway never entrenched itself into people's lives. Reasons for this include its relatively steep price and...
Added 28 October, 2013
Food tourism is huge these days. Travelers are choosing destinations based on the restaurants there, making reservations far in advance, and centering their vacations around food. The trends surrounding food these days are related to being sustainable, organic, local and small-batch. Put the travel trend and food trend together and you get food...
Added 24 October, 2013
Businesses of all stripes are getting greener by the day. But it's one thing to be more ecological, and another to communicate those values to your customers. The London Marriott has invented a creative way to share those values with its guests. The hotel created a limited edition tote bag made from 100% recycled bed linen provided by U.K....
Added 23 October, 2013
Several companies are now offering rocket rides to space, including Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace. But these are relatively quick rides and the time in the stratosphere only lasts a few minutes. Now, a new space tourism company named World View is going into competition with the rocketeers. Their unique offering is that they are not taking...
Added 23 October, 2013
Bicycle technology has changed incrementally over the years, but it's not until this year that the push-pedal bike will see a dramatic innovation that has the potential to change the way we travel. The invention is the Superpedestrian SDK Copenhagen Wheel, created by engineers at MIT and currently being perfected in a garage in Cambridge,...
Added 22 October, 2013
Dreams of flying around in personal air-cars have been around practically since the Stone Age. Now, that Jetsons future is almost here. Several companies are working on making flying cars a reality, led by Terrafugia, a company that is seeking to make personal aviation as simple as driving your car. The Terrafugia Transition is one of the most...
Added 21 October, 2013
Locally sourced healthful foods are popping up everywhere, from rooftop gardens to the new organic garden being installed in AT&T Park, the baseball stadium in San Francisco. Now the New York-based airline JetBlue is putting a farmer's market into their terminal at JFK, offering homemade apple pies, jams, honey, peach relish and more. The...
Added 18 October, 2013
Until self-driving cars become a reality, we will still be behind the wheel ourselves, trying to navigate our own ways as we go. Digital maps with turn-by-turn directions have become ubiquitous in cars around the world. But they require drivers to take their eyes off the road to use them. That is the problem that is being solved by heads-up...